Types of Love in One Flesh, To His Coy Mistress and Our Love Now

Types of Love in One Flesh, To His Coy Mistress and Our Love Now

One of the poems I have chosen is 'One Flesh'. It is written in the

first person but describes the parent's of the writer so all but the

last line is in the third person.

In stanza 1 he holds a book as they lie in two separate beds, reading

with the light on, this is an unromantic activity. There is a feeling

of waiting as if what happened before has gone away and they need

something new.

Stanza 2 shows something left over from a past explosion, they do not

need physical contact. If they do touch it is an apology for the loss

of feeling they once had. Their previous life has lead up to this

condition of chastity.

Stanza 3 tells the reader that even though they are separated there

seems to be a bond between them. They relies that they are old and the

passion they had to create the author is not there anymore. The

stillness and silence of the pair shows an acceptance of their fate;

they shred so many memories of life together, they have forged a band

that cannot be described in words.

The poem is written in a regular pattern of meter and rhyme consisting

of three sideline stanzas, they are tightly controlled like the

emotions of the two people in the poem.

The effect that the metre and rhymes is of gentleness and smoothness,

this suits the subject of the poem well, there is an undertone of

gentle sadness at the human condition.

'Our Love Now' is a poem that consists of 8 stanzas, set on opposite

sides of the page to suggest confliction of ideas, two people speaking

to each other but from different sides of the pitch.

The make statements in turn. The man is optimistic and thinks that the

love can survive and rift between them will cure. The woman is

demanding, she wants loyalty and respect, but also believes that it is

beyond repair and they will not get back together.